What is CRUD and REST?

There are some terms that I’m hearing more and more in the programming world, CRUD and REST.

What is CRUD?

CRUD is an acronym for Create Read Update Delete.  As a programmer / developer most of my time is spent doing crud operations (well at least in my current position).

What is REST?

REST is a acronym for Representational state transfer. Restful Development is a platform independent management and architectural style advocating pragmatic practice with industry standards.  Rest was first coined by Ron Fielding in his doctoral dissertation “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” .